Quote: Marsdengiant "Any hard evidence (pre and post licence) or is it small minded muck raking?'"

Compare the number of schools this term and the same period last year, the reduction in (experienced) personnel on the community team, all activity now takes place at the ZONE (at a cost) and not at local clubs as it has been done in the past.

I don’t need to muck rake, the Giants have not had a great community program for a number of years and since Lisa left it stalled quite a bit, but having said this Mick Sykes was very active and did what he could with the recourses at his disposal.

With a little thought and a lot of hard work we could have a program as good as Quin’s , Saints or Leeds who at the moment are showing the rest of the game how it’s done.

I think can answer most of those questions by reading the community section of the Giants club website as to why and how it has changed.

lock it - its boring pointscoring bollox !!

I think this is done

Richard Thewlis said

"I believe Rugby League’s strengths to be in its community values and fabulous playing spectacle. On Saturday we will see both perfectly showcased at our ground. We have ten local teams playing under 8 curtain raisers prior to the main event then at half time have 20 schools demonstrating their cheerleading prowess all of which have come from our community departments involvement in the local areas. The game speaks for itself in terms of profile and its great that our main broadcast partner has chosen to televise it.”